Dr g medical examiner biography book

I've never seen Dr. G's TV show.

How not to die: surprising lessons on living longer, safer, and healthier from America's favorite medical examiner.

Did watch Six Feet Under (each episode began with how a character died) and have been known to turn on a crime show now and then. An interesting, well written, quick read.

I appreciated the very first sentence in the acknowledgements where she thanked the decedents and the privilege they provided her to learn.

Also, " . .

In How Not to Die, Dr. G acts as a medical detective to identify the often-unintentional ways we harm our bodies, then shows us how to use that information to.

This series features Dr. G working on unexplained deaths in Orange and Osceola counties in Florida, as well as similar deaths from her previous employment as an.

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Jan Carla Garavaglia (born September 14, 1957), sometimes known as "Dr.

The book is about life, not death.

.a lot of us make our own bad luck. Life is a series of choises. And these choices, plus genetics and luck, determine our fate."

Dr. G. also discussed her career choices and path (farming or medicine) and mentors. I liked her personal discussion about how she uses science to discover the cause and manner of death and the healing she can give grieving families.

The description of the death investigation system in the U.S., how it started (MA in 1877), difference between state coroners and medical exa